Teachers’ attitudes towards children with voice problems
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The present study investigated the teachers’ attitudes towards children with voice disorders. Three groups of listeners participated in this study: 15 primary school teachers, 15 speech therapy students, and 15 general university students. They were required to make attitude judgments for 12 children voices (6 with normal voice; 2 with mild voice disorder; 2 with moderate voice disorder; and 2 with severe voice disorder) on semantic differential scale with 22 adjective pairs about personality, social characteristics, and physical appearance. 10-cm long visual analog scale was used in measuring the attitude ratings. The result revealed that teachers, as the other two groups of listeners, reported a significantly more negative attitude towards children with voice problems. The result aroused the awareness on the adverse effect from the teachers’ negative attitudes on academic, social, and emotional development of school age children with voice disorders.
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